Marvel’s X-Men C2E2 panel was packed with news including details of the X-Men 50th Anniversary event!
X-Men: Battle of the Atom will kick off in September with a special issue by Brian Michael Bendis and Frank Cho then run through the core titles (All-New X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, Wolverine and the X-Men and Brian Wood’s X-Men) then wrap in a final bookend by Jason Aaron and a “mystery artist.”
X-Men from the future including Kate Bishop, Deadpool, Lady Xorn, Ice Beast and more all designed by the legendary Arthur Adams arrive in the present. This Future Team’s mission is a direct response to the Beast bringing the original X-Men from the past in the present. These future X-Men will target the teens (now at the Jean Grey and Charles Xavier Schools) and the objective is to send them back by any means necessary.
“The story itself hinges on the All-New X-Men and whether or not they need to be sent back to their home time,” X-Men Senior Editor Nick Lowe tells Marvel.com. “This causes the X-Men of the past, present and future to pick sides.”
“Jason Aaron came to us with this [idea],” said Brian Michael Bendis, “Jason pitched big and he scored. Jason came to everyone with the bare essentials of this idea and everybody got really excited about it because it was all the things we liked about the X-Men. It spoke to the legacy of the entire franchise while at the same time focusing on the future.”
“This event really celebrates everything that we all love about the X-Men, to the extent that you get the X-Men of the past, present and future all coming together in one epic story that spans all the major locations of modern-day mutantdom.”
“People now know that they should have no idea what to expect from ALL-NEW X-MEN,” says Bendis referring to original five X-Men being brought to the present. “They really have no idea what to expect from an event like this—except there will be slapping. Everybody knows there will be slapping.”
“I can tell you that nothing in this event is what it seems,” teases Bendis. “The X-Men franchise has never taken an idea this far.”
“There are also a couple of ways in which the event will fold back and reinforce, profoundly, what I’m doing in my book,” says Brian Wood, “I’ll be establishing some stuff that’ll be around for a long, long time.”
For more on their interviews here’s the Marvel.com link. And keep scrolling to see more of Arthur Adams designs for the Future X-Men!
By Editor